Derek Walcott Quotes
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TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.
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You don't have to do everything from scratch. Nobody wants to make puff pastry!
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It's true that you need much time to get rid of the fat girl you once were, but you know I am sincerely grateful for my buttocks.
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Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
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I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
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Small ideas won't help Illinois' future.
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I'm a fast learner. I may not run as fast as I used to, but I think I still learn as fast.
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I'm ready to do something with Lady Gaga or Andrea Bocelli. I'm really grateful that nothing is out of the realm of possibility.
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I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a landscape. Looking at reality from some distance gives me romantic visions.
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
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Sports, as a media property, is increasingly valuable because it's something you have to have live. As a result, we're a better touch point for sponsors and advertisers because our commercials typically don't get zapped out.
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Every child deserves to grow up knowing their potential and feeling confident that they won't fall at the first hurdle - that they cope with life's setbacks.
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Ed is very sexy because his emotions are really there - not forced.
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My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.
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I walked into a gunfight with a knife to kill you, and cut you so fast when your blood spilled it was still blue.
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I find it is increasingly difficult to spend the time I need with my family and at the same time do the job that needs to be done.
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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The word of God is a tree of life that offers us blessed fruit from each of its branches. It is like that rock which was struck open in the wilderness, from which all were offered spiritual drink. Be glad then that you are overwhelmed, and do not be saddened because he has overcome you. A thirsty person is happy when drinking, and not depressed, because the spring is inexhaustible. You can satisfy your thirst without exhausting the spring; then when you thirst again, you can drink from it once more.
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I feel blessed that I was gifted.
